Edgar Choueiri in the anechoic chamber of his 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics lab
(The 3D3A Lab of Princeton University)
Kurt Andersen gets a sneak preview of the next big thing in entertainment: 3D sound. And more adventures in 3D: for cult film director Werner Herzog, 3D was the only way he could do justice to the 30,000-year-old cave paintings he documents in his new movie, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. In Los Angeles, a museum exhibition about graffiti prompts a flurry of arrests. And novelist Anne Lamott boils down the basics to being a successful writer.
Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?
At Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MOCA), a big new survey called Art in the Streets looks at the last forty years of graffiti. Not coincidentally, the LAPD arrested several graffiti artists the same week of the exhibit's opening — some of them, artists with work in the show. Arts writer Carolina Miranda tells Kurt Andersen...
Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
It may just be the best use of 3D technology yet: to bring moviegoers to a place they will never, ever, be able to visit. That's what director Werner Herzog does with Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He tells Kurt Andersen how he came to film one of the most amazing discoveries of our time — the 30,000-year-old...
Bonus Track: Kurt Andersen's Full Conversation with Werner Herzog
Adventures in 3D Sound!
Edgar Chouieri knows how things work; he’s a rocket scientist — officially, the Director of Princeton University's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory. If NASA ever sends a person to Mars, Chouieri’s research probably will have played a role. But Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen visited his lab recently to get a taste of the future right now. Chouieri’s hobby is acoustics...
Monopoly Redesign: Eliot Spitzer Edition
Since the board game Monopoly first came out in the 1930s, capitalism and tycooning have changed a lot. Someone who knows that better than most is former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who now hosts a public affairs program on CNN. Spitzer told Kurt Andersen his first lesson ...
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott started out as a novelist, but it was her bestselling 1994 nonfiction work Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life that catapulted her to fame as a guru. The book became touchstone and "life-changer" to writers and non-writers looking for practical advice ...
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I worked on the Soundfield 1 loudspeakers at dBx back in 1980. They reproduced an even soundfield over 120 degrees, and so created a very realistic 3D sound image in a moderate sized room of average acoustic characteristics with just a stereo pair. I have yet to hear any sound system that was both as good at 3D sound image and at musical clarity since then. Unfortunately, BSR bought dBx, and the design was greatly compromised by mandates from BSR.
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